That doesn't make it sound like this is going to work particularly well when I'm wearing ski goggles or dirtbike gear. This new form over function could prove to be a very annoying direction for Apple to go.
Fingerprint sensors nor touchscreens work through gloves, which I assume you wear when skiing or riding your dirt bike. Google/Android has voice unlock, but I suppose to be useful for you it has to work over a revving 2 stroke engine and an aftermarket exhaust.
I thought it strange... While the introduction was going on, the stock price dropped and still hasn't come back up even to what it started the day at...
Maybe it's because the FaceID demo failed on stage?
Tell me a phone that doesn't have Facebook pre-installed, and you can't delete it.
Most modern Android phones? Even if the app is in the firmware it can be disabled. Meaning all local data is removed, the app cannot run, and it won't show on your launcher.
if I replace the OS I could lose something important, like the ability to make phone calls.
So let me get this straight. You want the manufacturer to guarantee their hardware will work if you flash arbitrary software on it? And you want them to support arbitrary 3rd party OS installs? Sounds reasonable.
I'm tired of software treating the users as stupid and not letting them choose what's best for them.
Then fork your own browser maybe.
FF is written for the masses, not the 0.001% of users that perform their own extension verification. If you enjoy the FF project support policies that make it safe and secure for the masses. Wide adoption is what gets the project users and hence new features and new developers to work on those features.
No, we're blaming mozilla for being too lazy to to care about backwards compatibility
Implementing a policy that ensures extensions are not tampered and are sourced by the actual dev is not "not caring about backwards compatibility".
Of course, if there was a malware problem with those unsigned extensions I'm sure you'd be the same person crying that mozilla is "too lazy to care about security".
FireFox stopped allowing key add-ons I use already, because the authors have not created signed versions. So I had to reinstall version 47, where I could at least tell it to accept the fact that they add-on wasn't signed.
Sounds a little like you are blaming FF for the fact that the extension devs are too lazy to provide their users with a way to trust their addons. Is that right?
Opera was the best browser around through version 12. It was when they turned into a chrome clone that they turned into shit. Maybe Mozilla could learn a lesson from that...
What's the lesson? When you have 0.03% market share, and your competitor has 78%, keep doing the same old shit?
The question is whether this Chinese system is more efficient.
Engineering 101: the design that isn't implemented always beats the one that is.
Of course it'll be more efficient. They claim it's efficient because they'll cover the tube w/ solar panels. Okay, well, you can put solar panels along any train track.
China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop
You mean the Hyperloop that does not exist?
And will never exist. Sorry, but expecting to maintain near vacuum in 350 miles of 3-meter diameter tubing is not going to happen. Temperature induced contraction and expansion, earthquakes, vandalism, and sabotage. There're your problems.
And when it does fail, what happens? The entire system goes down as it loses vacuum. Assuming you could get someone to whatever remote location is required in a timely manner to repair the fault, how long will it take to put the whole system under vacuum again? All 350 miles of it? Assuming you weren't pulped when your carriage travelling at 1200kph suddenly went from operating in a vacuum to operating at standard PSI.
Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine. (It's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).
Name one big new project that is popular made in the past 3 years based on Java?
About 70% of the software at my company?
Surely though you have a good point. We'd have been better off using on WhizBang!JS for this quarter's new projects. So what if it'll be unsupported in a year and we have to re-write everything. Job security eh?
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors.
How do you think contributors feel about the idea that some "committee" is going to evaluate their morals and kick them out if they don't match the political manifesto du jour?
Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc.
Open source is about code. It's not a political platform.
On August 21, The TSC voted on whether or not to remove Vagg from its ranks. Of the 10 TSC members who voted, 60 percent voted against removing Rod from the TSC and 60 percent voted against asking Rod to voluntarily resign. That the TSC voted to keep Vagg on the committee inflamed others in the project.
I also don't understand why it matters that some member or another of a technical project does in their own time. The project should be about the code, not someone's opinion on men's rights or whatever. It'd be different if the person used the project to forward their personal beliefs ("Node.js supports mens' rights!") but I didn't get from TFA that was the case.
Those negative changes don't occur when you read a book. So basically watching TV does rot your brain.
Ah, but reading a book for "hours after hours" will atrophy your muscles. It is well known that prolonged periods of sedation will have negative affects to your health. It follows (obviously) that reading books in unhealthy and should be avoided.
If you couldn't pirate windows or its applications, then millions of users would have found something else that they could obtain for free, which would likely have resulted in millions more linux users. Many users can't or won't pay for software, and in eastern europe, asia and africa pretty much all software is pirated.
Nonsense, at least when it comes to Windows proper. Pirating Windows 7 involved binary hacks and crap like unplugging the internet during activation, and blocking certain patches that would have negated it. MSFT did a pretty thorough job.
Like any anti-piracy scheme, it's a cost benefit tradeoff. How much engineering time do you want to put it, and how much can you inconvenience your users? Whatever you do, if there's a will, there will be a way.
You can actually, you know, go outside if you're bored.
Finally, a practical solution that's really going to hit home with someone that's interested enough in their TV to be pricing out options and surveying cord-cutting services.
What TFA left out was cable companies playing with the numbers to make their TV look cheaper. Want fast internet? That's $90. But for only $30 more you can have 50 channels!
Pretty slick deal. By lowering TV, and raising internet, they keep their profits the same but make it financially impractical to go outside for your TV.
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How is that any different than the current t world where the police could compelled you to touch the finger print reader on your device?
It's about $500 different.
That doesn't make it sound like this is going to work particularly well when I'm wearing ski goggles or dirtbike gear. This new form over function could prove to be a very annoying direction for Apple to go.
Fingerprint sensors nor touchscreens work through gloves, which I assume you wear when skiing or riding your dirt bike. Google/Android has voice unlock, but I suppose to be useful for you it has to work over a revving 2 stroke engine and an aftermarket exhaust.
What exactly are you complaining about now?
I thought it strange...
While the introduction was going on, the stock price dropped and still hasn't come back up even to what it started the day at...
Maybe it's because the FaceID demo failed on stage?
Tell me a phone that doesn't have Facebook pre-installed, and you can't delete it.
Most modern Android phones? Even if the app is in the firmware it can be disabled. Meaning all local data is removed, the app cannot run, and it won't show on your launcher.
if I replace the OS I could lose something important, like the ability to make phone calls.
So let me get this straight. You want the manufacturer to guarantee their hardware will work if you flash arbitrary software on it? And you want them to support arbitrary 3rd party OS installs? Sounds reasonable.
Apple is likely to enact some corporate NIMBY-ism and tell AT&T to deal with it the eyesore of a protest.
Apple is likely to call the Cupertino police to clear them out.
Here's a thought: the addons pages could have a big lock icon stuck on the ones that mozilla can vouch for, and the others are "you're own your own".
And the vast majority of people would install the unsigned ones anyway. Then FF gets blamed and the bad press when malware gets spread through them.
There's a new bright-and-shiney out there
Signed code is a "bright and shiney"? Huh.
(Whenever they really want to fuck you over, the excuse is always "Security!". Once they say that you're supposed to salute and go away
If you perceive this has "f****** you over" then all I can say if they have professionals and medication that can help you get over that.
I'm tired of software treating the users as stupid and not letting them choose what's best for them.
Then fork your own browser maybe.
FF is written for the masses, not the 0.001% of users that perform their own extension verification. If you enjoy the FF project support policies that make it safe and secure for the masses. Wide adoption is what gets the project users and hence new features and new developers to work on those features.
No, we're blaming mozilla for being too lazy to to care about backwards compatibility
Implementing a policy that ensures extensions are not tampered and are sourced by the actual dev is not "not caring about backwards compatibility".
Of course, if there was a malware problem with those unsigned extensions I'm sure you'd be the same person crying that mozilla is "too lazy to care about security".
I wasn't commenting on anything other than the OP's implication that requiring devs to sign their extensions was an annoyance perpetrated by FF.
It was as good as it ever got
That's funny. Do you remember viruses, malware, and rootkits. XP was as bad as it ever has been.
FireFox stopped allowing key add-ons I use already, because the authors have not created signed versions. So I had to reinstall version 47, where I could at least tell it to accept the fact that they add-on wasn't signed.
Sounds a little like you are blaming FF for the fact that the extension devs are too lazy to provide their users with a way to trust their addons. Is that right?
Opera was the best browser around through version 12. It was when they turned into a chrome clone that they turned into shit. Maybe Mozilla could learn a lesson from that...
What's the lesson? When you have 0.03% market share, and your competitor has 78%, keep doing the same old shit?
The question is whether this Chinese system is more efficient.
Engineering 101: the design that isn't implemented always beats the one that is.
Of course it'll be more efficient. They claim it's efficient because they'll cover the tube w/ solar panels. Okay, well, you can put solar panels along any train track.
China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop
You mean the Hyperloop that does not exist?
And will never exist. Sorry, but expecting to maintain near vacuum in 350 miles of 3-meter diameter tubing is not going to happen. Temperature induced contraction and expansion, earthquakes, vandalism, and sabotage. There're your problems.
And when it does fail, what happens? The entire system goes down as it loses vacuum. Assuming you could get someone to whatever remote location is required in a timely manner to repair the fault, how long will it take to put the whole system under vacuum again? All 350 miles of it? Assuming you weren't pulped when your carriage travelling at 1200kph suddenly went from operating in a vacuum to operating at standard PSI.
Strange as it may seem, this all had an air of normality about it. Japan gets more than it's fair share of natural disasters, so anyone living here gets plenty of exposure to this same routine. (It's just that the reason is usually an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami, rather than a megalomaniac).
Which megalomaniac are we talking about here?
Name one big new project that is popular made in the past 3 years based on Java?
About 70% of the software at my company?
Surely though you have a good point. We'd have been better off using on WhizBang!JS for this quarter's new projects. So what if it'll be unsupported in a year and we have to re-write everything. Job security eh?
Also, don't let numbers get in the way either:
http://www.codingdojo.com/blog...
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors.
How do you think contributors feel about the idea that some "committee" is going to evaluate their morals and kick them out if they don't match the political manifesto du jour?
Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc.
Open source is about code. It's not a political platform.
On August 21, The TSC voted on whether or not to remove Vagg from its ranks. Of the 10 TSC members who voted, 60 percent voted against removing Rod from the TSC and 60 percent voted against asking Rod to voluntarily resign. That the TSC voted to keep Vagg on the committee inflamed others in the project.
I also don't understand why it matters that some member or another of a technical project does in their own time. The project should be about the code, not someone's opinion on men's rights or whatever. It'd be different if the person used the project to forward their personal beliefs ("Node.js supports mens' rights!") but I didn't get from TFA that was the case.
Impeccable logic.
Those negative changes don't occur when you read a book. So basically watching TV does rot your brain.
Ah, but reading a book for "hours after hours" will atrophy your muscles. It is well known that prolonged periods of sedation will have negative affects to your health. It follows (obviously) that reading books in unhealthy and should be avoided.
Whooooosh.
What do you think that loader does? You know, computers are good at automated steps, especially when it only involves writing data to files.
I suspect the same is almost true of Windows 10 on the desktop
If you play PC games, you run Windows. There's no change to that on the horizon.
If you couldn't pirate windows or its applications, then millions of users would have found something else that they could obtain for free, which would likely have resulted in millions more linux users. Many users can't or won't pay for software, and in eastern europe, asia and africa pretty much all software is pirated.
Nonsense, at least when it comes to Windows proper. Pirating Windows 7 involved binary hacks and crap like unplugging the internet during activation, and blocking certain patches that would have negated it. MSFT did a pretty thorough job.
Like any anti-piracy scheme, it's a cost benefit tradeoff. How much engineering time do you want to put it, and how much can you inconvenience your users? Whatever you do, if there's a will, there will be a way.
You can actually, you know, go outside if you're bored.
Finally, a practical solution that's really going to hit home with someone that's interested enough in their TV to be pricing out options and surveying cord-cutting services.
How about the alternative: stop rotting your brain and just reading a book?
How about the alternative: stop rotting your brain and go outside for a walk?
Shocking, I know.
See how that works? Not everyone likes the same things, and liking activity A over B doesn't make you better than anyone.
What TFA left out was cable companies playing with the numbers to make their TV look cheaper. Want fast internet? That's $90. But for only $30 more you can have 50 channels!
Pretty slick deal. By lowering TV, and raising internet, they keep their profits the same but make it financially impractical to go outside for your TV.